GOODBYE, MR. GERM

foreign [Music] foreign [Music] well what can I do for you that old book Away dad oh come on are they supposed to be pictures what's that that's my dear young man is the picture of The Germ that causes tuberculosis tuberculosis TV to you oh that little thing for that little thing comes out awful disease it doesn't look like much to me no no do you know that that little thing is alive quiet please and it eats as you do and it breathes oh if that germ could only talk what a story it would tell but germs don't talk no but suppose he could suppose I could invent in my laboratory a special radio that could hear what he might have to say yes that's an idea all right foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] I suppose you'd like a piece of this banana wouldn't you hmm ah it's good Come Along come on yeah yeah boy now where's my Julius come on Julius come on yeah yes we're not here here have a piece of carrots Expressions full of vitamins where where come on come on Union come on yeah see now can you all keep very quiet today because I I want to talk to TB The Germ this morning yes sir he'd be the girl there you are quack with my new gym radio invention hooked up to my microscope and I've learned German language too clever follow these gems [Applause] [Applause] trust me now quiet everybody [Music] foreign [Music] hello there professor well well there you are tell us about yourself sure I love to talk about myself exciting full of Adventure your incubator up there is a pretty snug place for an old-timer like me Professor but I remember when I was a Youngster I lived in the lung of a nice lady ant Matilda [Music] [Laughter] yeah yeah it's a cartel trooper I remember ant Matilda she never seemed very sick but she did have a cough never thought much about it though didn't she have a little nephew right oh Edgar was his name here at Matilda used to feed him tastiest food for him to be sure it wasn't too hot that's how I got into little Ann's lungs watch professor howdy and once in Edgar's mouth of course I made my way into his lungs [Music] where what happened then GE Professor that was a nice place Edgar's long so warm and pink and cozy of course I was lonesome a quarter so I got busy you know we germs raise big families and pass too all we need is a dark place in the body where soap and water can't get at us oh how soap and do water kill us and Edgar knew nothing about all these oh no I guess he didn't even feel sick but soon the cells in edger's body got busy and started to build walls around us oh yes let's have a human body protects itself the cells of which it is made lock up the germs so they cannot scatter elsewhere in the body so there we were all bottled up Shrugged like ordinary thieves Edgar's buddy won death battle oh me uh-huh that's what we scientists call a tubercle oh two two what at tubercle a tubercle in a medical book looks like this a firm round capsule and in the center the germs but go on PB what happened next well ironed and starved some of us managed to stay alive for years I guess [Music] Edgar grew up to be a handsome young man had a girl too worked awfully hard to make good was careless about his meals didn't eat right stayed out late at night when he ought to have been in bed all that put a strain on his body and one day something happened we germs saw our chance to escape Edgar paid no attention even though he had a coffin last week we multiplied so fast Edgar cells couldn't keep up with us so we spread and spread and staked out new plots his girl was the first to take notice the boy had no appetite and he had no pep tired all the time then in one day we germs broke through a pipe an artery that passed through long land and a great blood of blood poured out Edgar coughed up some blood that scared him at last he went to a doctor who sent him to a sanatorium there he rested nothing to do but get his body strong sad news for us oh yes I remember Edgar in the sanatorium that's where I got you by the way that's right Professor that senatorial is a bad place for germs like us no chance at all they don't let any of us Escape every patient has his own paper cup and you know what they burn these cups Shore danced for germs how is it you weren't destroyed too well the nurse sent some of it just sputum to the laboratory to be examined and I was in there so the man in the white coat gave us a new home a culture he called it experimenting I guess he kept us in an incubator when it was warm and there we grew well I guess that's the story and it was the man in the white coat who gave this culture to me do you know if Edgar got well professor oh yes he recovered completely he's happily married and has a boy of his own now that's good another Edgar I may die soon but my tribe will get him too we'll get young Edgar I know you won't things have changed TB Edgar senior had learned his lesson so he took young Edgar to the doctor and had a tuberculin test made well what on Earth is that just this simple skin test it tells if there are any germs like you present in a person's body you don't say smarty they can't see us hidden away so they invent this clever test and well this test was negative no germs in young Edgar's body suppose it had been positive professor in that case the doctor would have had an x-ray picture made of his chest as he did with another of his patients Mary a sweet young girl from high school her test came back positive and the doctor had this x-ray picture made of her chest gee let me see it too there you see the ribs and here is the healthy lung tissue and there see that spot that's a little tubercle like the one in Edgar senior's lung it's hard and firm now no germ will ever get out of that tubercle and once every year until she's grown up the doctor will make another x-ray picture but Professor what's to become of all my tribe with that kind of thing going on sorry Old Timer but you're almost through when all young folks get a tuberculin test and those who react positively get an x-ray TB germs are going to die out this is a fight to the Finish and man is going to win this fight Goodbye Mr germ so that's our finish oh I see the day when tuberculosis will be licked I see happy healthy children growing up without the fear that their lives will be ruined by it I can see parents happy with grown-up children parents who in the old days would have died in nearly death I can really see this ancient misery disappearing how about a cookie and a cool drink oh thank you dear oh mother Daddy has just told us another of his wonderful story and animal we are all grown up our children are not going to get tuberculosis are they daddy no indeed my dear [Music]